Subject: bug#5656: 23.1; nntp-marks-file-name is reset to nil and causes "IO error reading [...]: Is a directory"

From: Teemu Likonen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:09:13 +0300

* 2010-09-07 19:12 (-0400), Glenn Morris wrote:

> So can this be closed in light of 
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/70265/focus=70291

Maybe, but haven't actually tried the upstream Gnus code.

> In any case, it's a purely Gnus problem, and I don't know if Gnus is
> uisng this tracker.

I reported the problem to Gnus bugs mailing list first but it never got
any (public) attention. It seems that neither of my reports weren't of
much use. Lars just happened to find the bug by other means.

The ending seems to be happy, though. :-)